Well, the day started with the intention to sketch, and I was well prepared... Had to take a picture of my little travel art kit, as Dan (one of my blog mates) made a comment to one of my posts and and about my "travel art kit" (he thought my bag has to be really big). Look Dan! I even got my feet in the frame, so you can see that my bag is not that big (and no, I don't have big feet, ugly maybe, but not big).
So my friend and I ended up in Little Italy, and after looking around a bit we went in to a small Italian Bistro for lunch. I saw this small side street from the window and I said that's what I want to sketch (I like the way the street goes up and all the different roof tops). But my dear friend said "no"... "too hot" Okay so granted it was super hot, but, but!!! So I got no sketching done and we ended up with a treat after lunch. This amazing lemon merangue pie, it was so beautiful so I just had to take a picture of it {mmmmmmmmmm}
And after the treat was down to a single crumb and the pain of getting back in to the hot car, we went looking around a bit before heading home. And in one store I found a bag full of antique lace, all stuffed in to a big messy ball. Later that night I did some painstaking ironing, and this is what was in the bag and I got it all for $2.00.
And in a different store I found this, what they called it a antique paper holder. Not sure if how old it would be and when or who made it, I got it because it will hold our butcher paper. Have any one of you any idea about something like this?
And I found this beat up clip board (going to paint it), and two old books (Boys cub book from 1970 and a delightful Gaelic book about 1920)
Here is one of the images from the Cub book, its has funny illustrations in it (its falling apart as you can see)
And here is my Christmas in July. I don't celebrate this or anything, but my daughter is a huge fan of Christmas and seeing that we got a parcel in the mail, well that only means Christmas gifts. And I guess its fitting in one way, now that I finally got my fabric and mags from Sweden... Stuff that I ordered last October. My dear brother sent all of this to me and that's so sweet of him, but boy does the man know how to stretch out the waiting time : )
Alskar dig brosan, tusen tack igen... God Jul!!
10 meters of this fantastic graphic design fabric from Sweden, I so cant wait to sew it and finally hang it up (its for our kitchen). Christmas editions of some Swedish Mags. And a ton of Swedish movies (comedies, mysteries and dramas). So all in all, not too bad for not getting any work (sketching) done. 
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